CRIME: Faith

To Pennsylvania's
Governor George Howard Earle last week went a petition from 468 inmates
of Pittsburgh's Allegheny County jail. It asked him to commute the
sentence of Negro Inmate William McKinley Blackwell, scheduled to be
electrocuted for murdering a rival for the affections of his common-law
wife. Said the petition: "We who know him, who have eaten and smoked
with him for a year and a half, beseech you to save this man that he
may live to see you lead to the constructive expansion of humanity."